Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax

An anonymous reader writes "The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and here is the followup post in which the same author acknowledges that the program is fake. Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method. Quote from the author: 'Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!'"

People lie on the internet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Quote from the author: 'Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!'"

Oh sure. Next I suppose you're going to tell me that the guy who claims he ordered (and received) a 37" LCD TV for $7.99 due to a price mistake is lying, too. Or the kid who swore he put a Beta tape in a VHS deck and it played...Don't you have any faith in people anymore?

Re:People lie on the internet?

[Anonymous Coward]

My favorite was always the "If you heat up a needle and put it through this particular spot on your Tomb Raider CD, Lara Croft will be naked!" How many did that one disappoint, I wonder?

=)

Re:People lie on the internet?

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

How many did that one disappoint, I wonder?

I wasn't disappointed until I read that!

/.'d

[oDDmON oUT]

Oh well, didn't really want to read a retraction anyway.

Re:People lie on the internet?

[gEvil (beta)]

My favorite was always the "If you heat up a needle and put it through this particular spot on your Tomb Raider CD, Lara Croft will be naked!" How many did that one disappoint, I wonder?

But that one really worked. I did it myself. I swear!

Re:Key gen or not..

[johnlcallaway]

You, kind sir, may be expecting SP1 to actually fix the first round of bugs.

I, on the other hand, do not.

(Or I fucked up the post ... both are equally valid options)

Huh?

[encoderer]

The atomic number of zinc is 30?

A Winner Is You!

[vain gloria]

The brute force approach is fundamentally impossible, unless you are the luckiest person in the world.

Define "lucky". You've beaten amazing odds in a manner unrepeatable even given a million lifetimes and what do you get for it? A copy of Windows Vista.

Probably not even one of the Turbo Hyper Fighting versions either.

Re:People lie on the internet?

[shawn(at)fsu]

I don't know about that, but I do know that if I post this message 10 times I will get a free thingamajiggy in the mail. It works, my friend said so.

Re:People lie on the internet?

[antibryce]

How many did that one disappoint, I wonder?

I know of at least one... :(